This was Combs' reaction after she accidentally fired her handgun -- inside the Kentucky state capitol building. The lawmaker and gun enthusiast was unloading her firearm when a round inside the chamber was discharged, then ricocheted off the floor and into a bookshelf.

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Worse yet, the incident occurred just before the annual state-of-the-state address by Gov. Steve Beshear (D).

Yep. Gun fails aren't exclusive to Republicans. This is what happens when firearms are carried around like toys by paranoiacs and megalomaniacs who think they're either about to be mugged or about to take down a criminal. Seriously, can we at least have better background checks and, perhaps, mandatory training not unlike law enforcement training?

"Oops! It happens," just doesn't cut it when that bookshelf is too often a human being.

In various comment threads, missing was the barrage of comments calling for more gun control measures or a repeal of Florida's infamous "Stand Your Ground" law. Instead, I read comment after comment in which the victims were blamed for the shooting. Because they were committing the obviously death-worthy trespass of texting in a movie theater.

ABC News in Washington reports that a vehicle tried to ram the gates at the White House. A Secret Service pursuit led to the Capitol where shots were fired. There are reports of several injuries including a Capitol police officer.

No one wants to offend the gun people. But extremism never stopped the NRA and the utter wackadoodles and firearm fetishists lurking in plain view -- their American flag shirts and ridiculous bumper stickers flaunting their "right" to buy and keep as many guns as they can afford, and to use them in a wide variety of inexcusably psychotic ways.